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hello. i'm geeta guru-murthy with "bbc world news." our top stories, a court tells a dutch government was to blame for the slaughter of bosnian men during the siege of srebrenica in 1995. israeli air strikes on targets in gaza continue as hamas keeps up its rocket fire on israel. bashar al assad is sworn in as the president of syria for another seven years. and we have seen the best of germany at the world cup and now the worst. a cartel has been fined millions
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of dollars for fixing the price of sausages. hello. a court in the hague has ruled that the dutch government was responsible for the slaughter of bosnian men during the siege of srebrenica in 1995. dutch soldiers were part of a u.n. peacekeeping mission there. the ruling applies to the deaths of more than 300 people who sought refuge with the peacekeepers. altogether, 7,000 men were killed by bosnian serbs in the worst massacre in europe since the second world war. anna holligan is in the hague. >> reporter: these mothers formed a small but determined group here inside the courtroom. they have been disappointed though, because though they have
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been fighting on behalf of thousands of survivors, the district judge here in the hague ruled that the dutch could only be held accountable for 300 deaths, the deaths of 300 muslim men who were deported from the camp in the days that preceded the srebrenica massacre. the relatives of these women, though, these three women who represented the thousands of others, were not among those men. and therefore the state cannot be held accountable, the judge ruled for their relatives' deaths. the wives, mothers and children of the 300 men who were expelled from that camp under the dutch that watched will be entitled to compensation and those negotiations on the amounts will be discussed now. speaking to the lawyer representing the survivors earlier, he says with regards to the amount, how do you put a price on those deaths. some of these women lost 20 or more relatives. they're now left knowing that
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they fought and won on behalf of thousands, hundreds of survivors, but their own struggle to come to terms with what happened will now go on. >> anna holligan with some of the relatives who brought that court case. we'll bring you more on that as the day goes on. to israel because the country has warned thousands of residents in eastern gaza to leave their homes as it targets hamas leaders after the collapse of the proposed cease-fire. further bombing brings the death total to more than 200. 155 rockets were fired from gaza with one israeli killed. there have been explosions and smoke is seen rising from the buildings there as you can see there. air raid sirens have been heard in the israeli city of tel aviv. kevin connolly gave me the latest. >> well, those pictures tell start ary of te the story of th
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conflict going on which is familiar over a week. air raid sirens sounded in tel aviv. missiles streaking into the air, shooting down a salvo, incoming rockets from gaza. israel's air raids have continued in gaza, of course. and the death toll there has now gone over 200. that warning perfect israel is -- will cause further fear and anger and anxiety in gaza. gaza will feel there is no real place of safety for them to flee to after receiving that israeli warning. and, of course, there will be speculation not just in gaza but the wider world that attempting to clear areas of civilians like that could have caused the israel to try to minimize civilian casualties as it says, could be perhaps preparing the ground for an expanded military
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operation, perhaps the use of ground troops. really another day in a conflict depressingly familiar from the days which have gone before. >> and what about the role of egypt in trying to broker any kind of negotiations? because with the changing of position within egypt itself, does that mean it still counts? >> egypt is -- to all this. when egypt was run by mohamed morsi, who came from the muslim brotherhood, there was a comfortable relationship between egypt and gaza because hamas is an offshoot of the muslim brotherhood. now that egypt is controlled by mon someone who came from the ranks of the military, it is important. some think that mr. cece might be comfortable seeing hamas' military capability being degraded like this from israel.
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still if there is to be mediation, it will come from egypt. and egypt has a key concession it can make which might persuade hamas to come closer towards the cease-fire. egypt controls one of hamas' borders and imposes, like israel, very, very tight restriction on the flow of goods and people. if egypt were reminded to ease those restrictions, it might be able to attempt to mass into some sort of political process. so that probably will shape the deal that will end this crisis, when it does end, but there is no sign of when that will deal will be done. >> kevin connolly there speaking to me from jerusalem. now, president bashar al assad of syria has been sworn in for another seven-year term in office. these are the live pictures from syria state television, which shows president assad still speaking. that speech might go on for some
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time. and the president was declared winner of an election last month in the midst of the ongoing civil war, of course. with me is lena sinjab, our middle east regional editor, syria correspondent. just summarize what he has begun to say. >> basically after he's sworn into the oath of being the president for another seven years, he began a long speech about defiance, about the importance of syria being together under his own control and how the elections that many in the west called a -- and criticized them, where important elections and process of democracy in the country where it is still at war. and half of the people were not able to vote. >> he's claiming the real free syrians are those who live inside syria, not those who sold out to the west. >> absolutely. that's the main message he wants to say, that this is a
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conspiracy, and people who left syria and most of them he accused of being conspirators, those refugees who voted at embassy as he described them are the true syrians, who were forced out of syria because of terrorism, not because of a war that he was the main cause of it. >> if we try and sum up where he is in terms of strength, position, how much of the country is in control, what can you tell, what do you read into the way the way it has been carried out. >> it is military parade, that he started with, when this is first time we see this during an oath. this is a message of defiance. the way he was walking in towards the ceremony, he was very confident in his walk. this is a message to say he's the leader of the army, the army that is controlling the situation. he on the ground, the government is winning big time because of the support of iran, of russia and hezbollah as well. and the weakness of the
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opposition that is fragmented and lacking any support. but i have to say as well there is also a state of denial of what is happening. he's still calling those living inside syria as the free syrians, while every single day we still hear about people in syria being detained and thousands of them and every day there are cases of people being killed, in torture, in prison, because of words they have said, maybe because of a facebook status and the war is still ongoing with shelling, the government shelling areas under rebel control where civilians are being attacked. >> and the problem is now when we say syrian opposition and syrian rebels, isis and the militant jihadists has completely changed the picture, much more difficult, much more complex for anyone else to work out, to move forward. >> absolutely. go back to the source of the problem. the source of the problem was oppression inside syria that led to this situation that we are living today. now, let's remember the
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beginning -- the syrians took to the streets in peaceful manner, calling for freedom, calling for change, but because of the atrocities by the regime and the violence, this is where we are today. and because of many players around the region are also manipulating the situation inside syria. once justice prevails, all this will end. >> when, we hope. we will see. thanks very much, indeed, lina. >> thank you. in other news today, russian investigators say they have detained two employees of the moscow metro for alleged safety breaches after a train was derailed yesterday. 22 people were killed and more than 130 injured. investigators believe the accident was caused by a faulty track switch. a chinese oil rig that has been operating near disputed islands in the south china sea has been withdrawn months ahead of schedule. there were clashes between ships from china and vietnam and
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southern anti-chinese demonstrations in vietnam. talks today, 18 months after france intervened in mali to fight islamist insurgents who are linked to al qaeda. several people killed in u.s. drone strike in pakistan. the attack struck a militant compound in a tribal belt in north waziristan near the afghan border. they mounted an offensive in the region aimed at wiping out insurgent bases. we are following the story from islamabad. >> reporter: reports say that at least 50 suspected militants have been killed, that's 50. the pakistani army says it carried out air strikes targeting suspected taliban and al qaeda militants. separately there have been u.s. drone strikes and 18 people are
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killed there. now, we know that there is a military operation going on in north waziristan since last month. the army is saying it wants to -- once and for all and the latest attacks by the army and american drones are being seen in that context. >> and also reports of one taliban commander being picked up. >> that's right. these reports are not yet confirmed. but the person in question, his name is adnan rashib, jailed for assassination attempt against the former president pervez musharraf in 2003. he escaped from the jail two years ago. he's also somebody who wrote an open letter to the pakistani education activist malala yousufzai justifying the attack against her. he speaks three languages.
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he's one of those bad taliban the pakistani army has been trying to target. so there are reports he was captured from south waziristan tribal region but no information from the army or taliban. >> aaron is right here, looking at china's growth numbers today. >> yes. >> good news? >> yes. so far. well, you know, some experts say it is good news, but -- there is always a but. thank you, geeta. let's begin in china where growth, yes, it is picking up again. certainly at a rate better than expected. the world's second biggest economy accelerated by 7.5% in the second quarter, three-month period are compared to a year ago, and hitting the growth target set by premier li's government. they make up 20% of china's economy there, there are worries that bubble will burst and derail the government's efforts to keep that growth rate at 7.5%
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or more going forward. something we're going to keep a cross on that. how about this? for decades these two tech giants have battled for customers to dominate the personal computing market. in this new era of mobile phones and tablets, the two foes are becoming friends. yeah. apple is teaming up with ibm, i'll do my own graphics movement, teaming up with ibm to create simple to use business apps and sell iphones and ipads to ibm's corporate customers. engineers from the two companies are developing more than 100 apps for various industries, all expecting to make them available, sometime in this autumn. we'll keep a cross on that story. and asking if these two come together, what does that mean for blackberry? let's stay with tech. google is stepping up its push into the car market. it announced the former ford ceo will join the board, giving google auto expertise in its quest to develop self-driving
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cars. mulally will receive $1 million in google stock and annual equity award of 350,000. google announced it is in a separate filing. don't go anywhere. happeni hang on. i'm coming back. i'm right here. i want to talk about these little beauties. this is the end product of what she's doing now, i believe. germany, it may be be famous for its love of sausages. but it seems that people who make them haven't been entoirel honest with their customers. regulator in berlin found a group of 21 sausage manufacturers have been fixing prices for several decades. the cartel was known as the atlantic group after the hotel in hamburg where the company first met, all hush-hush, they met to figure out how to collaborate. now they have been fined $460 million. germany, i didn't know this, germany has more than 1500 different types of sausages.
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and the price fixing conspiracy basically came about because it was seen as too complex to set individual prices on all of those 1500 snags as we call them. follow me on twitter. tweet me @bbcaaron. that's it. you know, geeta, i know you -- you need -- you need sausage once in a while. it is good for you. >> no. don't come anywhere near me with raw pork. >> oh, raw pork. good for you. >> listen, next hour they met in a hotel in hamburg, so what do you need next time? >> okay. >> hamburger. the desk needs to be cleaned immediately before we carry on. stay with us if you dare. still to come, we tell you why these people were injured and taken to hospital. they were traveling on a flight from johannesburg to hong kong. [ male announcer ] we know they're out there.
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bbc world news, i'm geeta guru-murthy with the top stories this hour. a court rules the dutch government was partly responsible for the deaths of some of the thousands of bosnian men massacred at srebrenica in 1995. israeli air strikes on targets in gaza continue as hamas keeps up rocket fire on israel. over 200 palestinians and one israeli have been killed so far. now 20 passengers and crew have been injured as severe turbulence hit their plane, which was traveling from johannesburg to hong kong. emergency workers at hong kong took the injured to hospital. the flight had hit turbulence over the malaysian air space. we go to martin nkosi in johannesburg. what happened? it sounds pretty alarming to everyone who flies, of course. >> very much so, geeta. i've just been talking to the
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spokesman for south african air ways and he confirmed to me that this incident occurred over the kuala lumpur air space on a flight from joe hahannesburg tog kong. 165 passengers were on the plane, 20 people injured, as you just mentioned, three of them are the crew, and two of those 20 who were injured have been sustained serious injuries. they have been taken to local hospitals in hong kong. the captain of the flight radioed ahead at hong kong airport saying he would need emergency services and that's how the emergency services were waiting on the tarmac when the flight landed. it was an a-340, an airbus a-3400 plane. >> i presume if people were strapped in, that happens when you hit turbulence, there is
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some kind of warning. do we know what happened? were people thrown around? must have been thrown around quite badly. >> yes. faa says this was a weather-related occurrence. they are still waiting for further details from the pilot and the crew to explain exactly what happened inside that aircraft. >> okay. milton, we'll find out more soon. many thanks. now, guantanamo bay, you may think the u.s. detention center in cuba. there is also a u.s. naval base there and now many are suggesting there is no strategic reason for a continued u.s. military presence. we report from guantanamo. >> reporter: this is guantanamo bay from the cuban side. a sun-baked spot where life moves very slowly, on an old ideological front line. the watch towers mark the edge of the u.s. naval base at guantanamo. the american military here inside communist cuba. things here aren't tranquil these days, but there is
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resentment under the surface. the americans control the entrance to guantanamo bay, restricting cuban fishermen to these parts. ail za alexander tells me the best catches are in the deeper waters which are off limits now. they're hoping, praying, that the americans leave one day. but their base was part of the landscape here long before the revolution. both sides must agree if it is to be closed. the u.s. base is so close to this town that every morning locals here on this side of the base hear the american national anthem coming from the military just over there. they call it an illegal occupation and ever since the revolution, fidel castro refused to cash the rent check for americans paying to be here. it is lucrative for some though. this is one of thousands of cubans who worked for the americans in guantanamo bay. the u.s. stopped hiring, but he
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and many others carried on working at the base. and today collect big pensions from the americans. when he started work in the forces, guantanamo's streets were full of americans. the city historian points out a brothel and talk of the moral threat from the u.s. base in the old days. later he argues it became a threat to national security. >> translator: a further revolution, there were killings, a border guard, a fisherman, most acts of aggression were planned at the u.s. base in guantanamo. it was a very dangerous place. >> reporter: but partly why the revolutionary spirit remains high here. that and the extra food rations to keep locals loyal. we are the first line of defense against imperialism, this woman shouts to us. the hope here is that such
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fighting talks can be confined to history one day. president obama talks of shutting down the u.s. detention center in guantanamo, he never talked of closing the naval base here or returning this land to cuba. bbc news, guantanamo bay. the imperial war museum in london is reopening after a face-lift costing almost $70 million. robert hall went to have a look. >> reporter: it stands reassuringly near the oval cricket ground, outwardly unchanged for nine decades. but behind the imposing entrance, a transformation. over the past 12 months, hundreds of items from tanks to tunics have been re moved and restored. as the construction teams tore the heart out of the old atrium to create area spaces and larger
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galleries. laura clouting helped to choose items which will help bring the first world war to tomorrow's generations. >> it has been 25 years since we first opened the gallery. there is 1,300 objects in this exhibition and each one of those has had to go through a huge process of conservation before they had gone on display. >> reporter: some items like this giant artillery piece had galleries built around them. others symbolize the savagery and suffering of war. all are precious. >> this is general hague's jacket. and we have his medal ribbons that are quite damaged and starting to fray. so we have -- by the time we're finished and stitched it down neatly, you shouldn't be able to see that once it is on display.
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government was to blame for the slaughter of bosnian men during the siege of srebrenica in 1995. israeli air strikes on targets in gaza continue as hamas keeps up its rocket fire on israel. 500 children rescued from a mexican orphanage. police say they were sexually abused and forced to beg. and we're seeing the best of germany, the world cup, now here's the worst. a cartel has been fined millions of dollars for fixing the price of sausages.
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hello. a court in the hague has ruled the dutch government was responsible for the slaughter of bosnian men during the siege of srebrenica in 1995. dutch soldiers were part of a u.n. peacekeeping mission there. the ruling applies to the deaths of more than 300 people who sought refuge with the peacekeepers. altogether, 7,000 men were killed by bosnian serbs in the worst massacre in europe since the second world war. the bbc's anna holligan is in the hague. >> reporter: the mothers of srebrenica blame dutch peacekeepers for failing to prevent the genocide. thousands of muslims had fled to the u.n. base seeking protection from general ratko mladic and his bosnian serb forces.
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it was supposed to be a safe zone. the dutch battalion was on patrol at the time, but did not intervene. what followed was the worst massacre committed on european territory since the nazis. these women, the mothers of srebrenica, formed a small but determined group here inside the courtroom. they have been disappointed by the verdict, though, because although they have been fighting on behalf of thousands of survivors, the district judge here in the hague ruled that the dutch could only be be held accountable for 300 deaths, the deaths of 300 muslim men who were deported from the camp in the days that preceded the srebrenica massacre. the relatives of these women, though, these three women, who represented the thousands of others, were not among those men and therefore the state cannot be held accountable, the judge ruled, for their relatives' deaths. lawyers representing the soldiers say they did try to
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protect the refugees. last september a dutch court ruled the state was liable for the deaths of three bosnian muslim men who were expelled from the dutch backed compound into the hands of bosnian serb forces. anna holligan, bbc news, in the hague. president bashar al asasad f syria has been sworn in for another seven years. declared the winner of an election held last month in the midst of a civil war. the vote was dismissed eed as a sham. israel's warned thousands of residents to leave their homes as it targets hamas leaders. further bombing killed ten people bringing the death toll to more than 200. israel says 155 rockets were fired from gaza with one israeli
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killed. >> reporter: some nervous residents, there has been no cease-fire. they stare at the sky, wondering when the next rocket will arrive. the attacks by hamas militants hardened israeli resolve to strike back at gaza with even greater force. >> i believe the chances of an israeli ground effort, maybe not an occupation, but an significant incursion or campaign, i would argue the odds of that have gone up significantly. >> reporter: the israeli military has been dropping leaflets to tell people to evacuate parts of gaza. this man said he couldn't read. another said where can we go? we can't leave our area. but many residents did flee, some had received an audio message from the israelis saying they would target so-called terrorists, not civilians.
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this is day two, where memories are still raw from killing in earlier conflicts. the israeli army has released a video showing how it tries to distinguish between militants and ordinary families. these are the impacts of those missiles on the ground. dozens of houses were targeted, including those of senior hamas officials and politicians. this one belonged to dr. mahmoud zahar, a co-founder of hamas. a man nearby is hysterical. we have all gone mad. we can't deal with this horrible situation anymore, he says. for god's sake, end this conflict. i don't know who is worse, the jews or the arabs. the stress on gaza's population is increasing. along with the fear of air strikes comes the day to day battle to find clean water. >> the water situation, the sanitation situation is really
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getting much worse. about 90% of gaza's water was already unfit to drink before the current crisis. and the damage to the water systems, to sewage plants, is going to make that worse. >> reporter: conditions in gaza are likely to deteriorate with every air strike. one short cease-fire has failed, it's hard to see when the new escalation of violence is going to end. emily buchanan, bbc news. in other news today, russian investigators say they have detained two employees of the moscow metro after a train was t derailed, killing 22 people and injuring many others. they believe the accident was caused by a faulty track switch. chinese oil rig operating near the disputed islands in the south china sea has been withdrawn a month ahead of schedule. it is around the paracel islands.
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talks aimed at ending the fighting in mali will take place today between the government and six arab and tariq armed grub e. it comes after france intervened in mali, despite insurgents linked to al qaeda. sunni militants are taking control of various -- the peshmerga secured the bord and prevented isis advances. we spent the day at a training camp for female peshmerga. >> reporter: while training is under way in this military camp on the outskirts, it is a very hot morning here in kurdistan. these are the soldiers of the elite female order, and some have come back from the front line in kirkuk where they faced isis fighters. some are undergoing intense training and are about to go to
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fight for -- the peshmergas have been crucial in the fight against isis. and many here believe that kurdistan has been safer because of what peshmergas and soldiers were able to do, combat the militants. after morning assembly, it is straight to patrol training. the soldiers' stamina is tested in a simulated battlefield. this is an exercise on what to do if your squad is ambushed, something they have to be adept with if they with stand a chance against isis fighters. with this situation, we went with our unit to kirkuk. i was there three days and three nights. the reasons we want to fight isis is, first, to defend our country. and, secondly, to defend women, because in mosul, isis attacked a lot of women. the unit is made up of several
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hundred fighters, all volunteers. few have actually fought on the front line, but since the recent conflict with isis, many have been asking their commander to go. >> i'm going to fight back. and i'm a mother and i have three children. and my husband is very happy, proud for me. >> reporter: it is down time at the end of a long day of training. before some of them head out to the battlefield, the soldiers think about martyrdom and dying for their land. bbc news. now to mexico where police have rescued around 500 children who allegedly suffered sexual abuse and were forced to beg in the streets.
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federal forces and military personnel raided an orphanage known as the house of the big family in zamora. nine people face charges of mistreatment, kidnapping and sexual abuse. police say the children were kept in deplorable conditions. >> translator: the children had to beg for money in houses and streets, eat rotten food, sleep on the floor with pets and endure sexual abuse and were prohibited from leaving the premises. babies born in the household were registered in the name of the founder, preventing the biological parents from being their guardians, or making decisions about their children. they were promised that the children would be allowed to go once it reached legal age. >> with me is rosa. the details look horrific. can you tell us what we know? >> we know when the police got in, they were surprised about the conditions that the people were living in. they took -- there were 600
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people living in there, but 500 where -- were minors and six babies actually. so and then they relied, gosh, what happened, eating bad food, this is not good. so then they arrested in particular the founder of the orphanage, which is called mama rosa. that city, everyone knew mama rosa. >> and this place has been going on for 40 years. it is disturbing that people in the local environment didn't know or weren't suspicious. >> yeah, i mean, what i can see for all the reaction, some people felt that maybe something was wrong in there, but these kids didn't have any other options. these kids were, you know, sons or daughters from criminals, people in jail, drug addicts, and the other option was to live in the street. so therefore mama rosa was doing a good job and that's what you see in people now thinking, gosh, why we didn't see it, why we didn't do something about it. >> and allegations of abuse
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involve what? >> well, the abuse is -- they are investigating what the police s police is saying there is sexual abuse, but what is striking is some parents wanted to get back their kids and they couldn't because if they were born in that institution, they would get the name, the surname of mama rosa, because she's, you know, so one of the womans, up with of the victims said i wanted to keep my two girls and they didn't let me do it and that's how these investigations starts and that's how they found that this place was not as good as they thought. >> okay. i'm sure much more is going to come out on this. thank you very much indeed. death from hiv/aids fell to 1.5 million last year. that's 200,000 fewer than in 2012. that's according to a new report released by the united nations. the global effort to beat the pandemic has made huge strides, the battle is far from over.
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michael utebe joins us from geneva. the numbers look good. what is behind the fall? >> what i want to say is that again the report is showing clearly that we're making progress. that with global solidarity is helping to save lives. just during the last three years we have been able to put 5 million to 6 million new people on treatment. a few years ago we were struggling to have even treatment for people in the world. at the same time, the report is showing gaps. the report is showing that if we don't put people at the center of our approach, we're not end the epidemic. we are leaving people behind. people who have been left behind, talking about, for example, sex worker, we know that they have 13 higher risk to
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be hiv positive. but they're hiding themselves. they can't even use condoms in some places because they will be arrested. young girls, for example, in parts of africa, in particularly in africa in general, facing violence, rape and we're seeing that one part of those younger girls today are most hiv positive, can say even that all the new infections, one out of four are young girls. so we need to address their issues. >> the medical director says millions of hiv positive people don't get the drugs they need and still an ongoing criticism in africa that sexual practices are still not what they should be, that governments aren't doing more, the catholic church, is it doing what it could, this virus has been known about now for a long time.
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shouldn't progress have been much faster? >> i think that's why we are calling for making sure that the world can have a global commitment to make sure that the people who will be able to know their status could have access to treatment. because we know that treatment can reduce completely the number of new infection by 56%. but unfortunately, we are 19 million out of 35 million who are infectioned today who don't know this and don't know why because they're stigmatized, criminalized, they're hiding themselves, they're not able to come to services. when you have 78 countries, when you have most regions where you -- people cannot come because they are drug users, in federation of russia or the middle east or north africa, we
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have to fight the taboo and the bad laws. >> okay. thanks for that. we do appreciate you joining us. >> thank you for your support. >> stay with us here on "bbc world news." much more are to come this hour. can a superhero change sex? we find out why one publisher changed a comic hero from a masculine god to a buxom blonde. shopping online is as easy as it gets.
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this is "bbc world news." i'm geeta guru-murthy with the top stories this hour. a court rules the dutch government was partly responsible for the deaths of thousands of bosnian men in the serb nit srebrenica massacre. air strikes continue as gaza
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keeps up. over 200 people have been killed. around 50 people are reported to have been killed in u.s. drone strike in pakistan. the attacks struck a militant compound in a tribal belt in north waziristan near the afghan border. the pakistani military has mounted an offensive in the region aimed at wiping out insurgent bases, but pakistan has maintained it does not support direct u.s. intervention there. the bbc's shahzeb jillani has more. >> reporter: the reports from north waziristan say 50 suspected militants have been killed, that's 5-0. the pakistani army says it carried out air strikes targeting militants. 35 people are reportedly killed. separately there have been u.s. drone strikes, and 18 people are killed there. now, we know that there is a military operation going on in north waziristan since last
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month. the army is saying it wants to clear the area once and for all, and these latest attacks by the army and by american drones are being seen in that context. >> and also reports of one taliban commander being picked up. >> that's right. these reports are not yet confirmed. but person in question, his name is rasheb, a high profile taliban commander, he was jailed for an assassination attempt against the former president pervez musharraf in 2003. he escaped from the jail two years ago. he is also somebody who wrote an open letter to the pakistani education activist malala yousufzai justifying at tack against her. he speaks three languages. he's one of those bad taliban the pakistani army has been trying to target.
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so there are reports he was captured, but no confirmation from the army or the taliban. >> shahzeb jillani in islamabad. ten people have been skilled as a typhoon swept across the philippines and brought the capital manila to a complete stand still. the storm is the strongest to hit the country this year, with wind speeds of up to 185 kilometers per hour. it is also forced almost 400,000 people to leave their homes. >> reporter: the devastation became clearer soon after the typhoon passed manila bay. ferocious winds have toppled trees and power lines, bringing life to a stand still in manila. government offices and roads were closed across the city. people in shantytowns were the worst affected. many houses were blown away. emergency services were trying
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to rescue people trapped by fallen debris in other parts of the country. several people died from electrocution. the philippines is hit by around 20 storms a year. this typhoon is the first to make landfall this year. more than 650,000 people from high risk areas have been moved to emergency shelters. aid agencies say the timely evacuation has helped to reduce casualties. parts of the philippines are still recovering from typhoon hainan that devastated the country last year, killing more than 6,000 people. after crossing the philippines, it is now categorized as a storm and is heading to the south china sea. it is expected to gain in strength once it is back out at sea. bbc news.
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now, germany may be famous for its love of these, yes, i have an absolutely delightful plate of raw sausages under the hot studio lights. but it appears some haven't been entirely honest with their customers. the scam goes back for years. let's go to berlin. can you smell the raw meat from where you are, steve? this is a huge favorite with people around the world, what is this story about? how damaging is it? >> good for consumer, i suppose. the regulators in this country have discovered that the sausage manufacturers, the people who make the nation's sausages, have been fixing prices. there are about 1500 different types of tasausages in germany. you can't fix the price for each
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type, each species or whatever they call it for sausages. so what the producers were doing is basically phoning around, and saying, this is the price rise we'll have, this is the percentage rise in the prices for this year. they have been caught at it and they had a hefty fine. >> and it is good for the consumers. >> well, if you break up a cartel, it is going to be good for consumers. what a cartel is is a conspiracy to keep the prices higher than they would be if a freer market were operating. so the implication is what a cartel does is it rips off the customers by keeping prices artificially high. so if you best the cartel, then by implication those producers can't get together in future to rip off the customers. >> i thought the point of sauce annu ages was they were the cheapest price of meat you could get. thank you for joining us.
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now, the most famous characters in the world of comic books. if you're a fan of archie andrews, brace yourself for bad news. tim almond explains. >> reporter: a light hearted character, usually the most light hearted of tales, now taking a somber turn, deadly gun violence coming to the pages of archie comics. in the latest issue of life with archie, a spin-off title looking at his adventures as an adult, a red headed hero tries to foil an assassination attempt on his friend kevin. the book's first openly gay character. but it is archie that takes the bullet, a tragic ending, you might think, the publishers disagree. >> it is not sad actually. it is inspirational. because archie does what you would want archie to do. he takes the bullet for his friend. and he would do that for anybody. >> reporter: and this is an e
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iconic figure in american culture. he first appeared in 1941, selling hundreds of millions of copies down the years, even enjoyed a pop career with a hit record in the late '60s. a serious success, now telling a very serious tale. >> archie andrews is a very iconic all-american hero. to have him literally take a bullet for the ideas of diversity and equality in a comic book is a very powerful statement. and much more powerful statement than is usually made. >> reporter: but this being the world of comic books, death is never quite absolute. the grown-up archie andrews may be no more, but his teenage adventures in the main archie title will continue. tim almond, bbc news. well, more on the world of comics. there has been a move likely to shake the -- the superhero will change sex.
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the masculine thunder god first appeared in 1962, but the company now says there is a new series with a female with an effort to try to get more girls and women to start reading superhero comic books. i'm not sure my little boys would approve of that at all. this is "bbc world news." thanks for watching. [ male announcer ] we know they're out there. you can't always see them. but it's our job to find them. the answers. the solutions. the innovations. all waiting to help us build something better.
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you're watching "gmt" on "bbc world news." with me david eades. our top stories, srebrenica, the worst crime on european soil since the second world war and dutch peacekeeping troops are told they were partly to blame. a court in the netherlands makes the ruling on a balkan massacre which left nearly 8,000 dead. israel warns palestinians in gaza to move out of their homes as the air strikes continue. what hopes are there for cease-fire from both sides?

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